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Entries from November 13th, 2009

Upcoming Events – Weekend of 11/13

November 13th, 2009 No Comments

Yet another Friday the thirteenth is upon us, Baltimore, and still your luck is yours to make, unless you’re still hungover from the double-impact of last winter’s Irish twin thirteens. Whether you’re superstitious or not, rouse yourself from the warm dent you’ve formed in the couch and take a chance on something unusual this week. [...]

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Sooner or Calculator

November 12th, 2009 No Comments

Following up on earlier good news from BGE, there’s now another way these cold-eyed corporate mercenaries will help you pay them less money. And once again, it’s free. BGE recently launched a home energy efficiency calculator through its website.
The new utility will allow BGE users (as well as non-users) to enter information about their home [...]

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Baltimore User’s Guide: Wireless Providers

November 11th, 2009 No Comments

There are a few things I take for granted when blogging. One, that you’re reading this blog purposefully, not misguidedly searching for porn or encoded al-Qaida instructions (The rooster crows at dawn, my brothers). Two, that you have regular, and perhaps portable, internet access. But should this second assumption prove wrong and [...]

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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up – Arcadia

November 10th, 2009 No Comments

Last week we were talking about how nice it is to live next to a park in a big city.  If we convinced no one else, we at least convinced ourselves that parks are totally awesome and wonderful.  And then we remembered this week that Herring Run and Lake Montebello are also beautiful, spacious parks [...]

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Monday Morning Links Round-Up – November 9th

November 9th, 2009 No Comments

Audacious Ideas starts us off this week by taking questions about race in Baltimore.
Dining@Large has a list of the top ten pig-out spots in town.  We feel fatter just reading about them.
The Baltimore Food Examiner tells us about Milan, a new restaurant opening by the holidays in Harbor East/Little Italy.  Their talk of Italian-inspired sushi [...]

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Upcoming Events – Weekend of 11/6

November 6th, 2009 No Comments

If your Halloween in any way resembled mine, then one little Daylight Savings do-over hour was far from sufficient. This week the events calendar seems to be taking a bit of a hangover break, so change things up and try improving yourself with some nice, crunchy culture. Next weekend I promise it’s back to debauchery.
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Home Staging

November 5th, 2009 1 Comment

So there was a big story in the New York Times last week about home staging. This is the practice –– and for some, the thriving business -– of arranging in the house which you are trying to sell a kind of lovely fiction of your life. Or rather, of someone else’s life.
The theory is [...]

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Baltimore User’s Guide: Learn Something. For Free.

November 3rd, 2009 1 Comment

Now, Baltimore, we don’t want this to go to your head, but the Daily Beast thinks you’re pretty smart. In their recent survey of American metropolitan areas with more than a million residents, Baltimore finished 10th out of 55 cities, and that’s nothing to sneeze at. Now while these surveys should be [...]

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Baltimore Real Estate Round-Up: Bordering Patterson Park!

November 3rd, 2009 2 Comments

As a kid I used to love visiting my grandparents — not just because they were my grandparents or because they kept jars of (good) candy all over the house, but because they lived across the street from McKennan Park, a neighborhood park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  I could see the band shell, the [...]

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Monday Morning Links Round-Up – All Souls Day

November 2nd, 2009 No Comments

Halloween may be past us, but you can still make these spooky delicacies from Bmore Sweet.
If you got too many meat tricks and not enough vegan treats you might want to try Emily’s Café & Desserts, a new vegan café and bakery, suggests Dining@Large.
And if you need something to wash down all your leftover candy, [...]

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